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JAMES DEBONO jdebono@mediatoday.com.mt 8 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 17 MARCH 2024 NEWS NOTICE OF INTENTION The Directors of Integrated Talent Ventures Limited, having company registration C47130 and its registered office at Capital Business Centre, Entrance C, Level 2, Triq Taz-Zwejt, San Gwann, Malta, declare their intention to register for a Temping Agency license in accordance with the L.N. 270 Employment Agencies Regulations, 2023. The activities to be carried out are the following: • Entering into contracts of employment or employment relationships with temporary agency workers. • Assigning on a regular or on an irregular basis the temporary agency workers to user undertakings to work there temporarily under its supervision, direction and control. • Submitting to Identity Malta Agency work permit applications and renewals on behalf of user undertakings. Dingli hamlet hit by domino effect as one villa leads to another THE foundations of a nev- er-completed building approved back in 1979 have triggered a domino effect on the rest of the Ta' Sabbat rural hamlet in a picturesque area between Bus- kett and Dingli cliffs in an area, where new villas are not normal- ly allowed on virgin land. Over the past years, the Plan- ning Authority has approved three brand new detached villas on virgin land, despite local plan policies protecting the area. The latest was approved on the basis of the domino effect creat- ed by other permits, and against the recommendation of the case officer and the contrary vote of planning commission member Carmel Caruana, who insisted the permit was in breach of the local plan. But two other PA board mem- bers approved the permit citing the Development Planning Act, which allows the PA to take in consideration existing legal commitments in the area where a development is proposed. In this case, the developers' archi- tect presented a map showing legal commitments in the area consisting of two fully detached dwellings approved after 2018, and the sanctioning of two ille- gally constructed villas in nearby sites. These included a new 155 sq.m detached villa on an adjacent site approved by a differently composed board chaired by Elis- abeth Ellul in 2019, back then al- so against the recommendation of the case officer. The villa had been approved on the basis of a legal commitment created by a 1979 permit for a farmhouse, never developed save for its. Subsequent attempts in 1995 and 2010 to construct the vil- la were refused by the PA. The case officer, who was ultimate- ly overruled, had insisted that foundation works could not be considered as a commitment of an 'existing building' to qualify for redevelopment. Yet another permit was issued in 2017 to sanction an illegally constructed villa built sometime between 1967 and 1978 – the permit was based on the rural policy that considers pre-1978 structures as legal. Another nearby villa was al- so approved in 2021, following a decision by the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal to overturn the PA's refusal. Sig- nificantly it was approved on the basis of the precedent created by the redeveloped villa on the 1979 foundations. Now a brand new villa with a garage and a pool is being pro- posed on agricultural land in another area of the Ta' Sabbat hamlet along Triq il-Buskett, 135m away from the Buskett woodland, next to a derelict ho- tel which its owners want turned into an old people's home. The apart-hotel, also constructed in the 1970s, had a redevelopment permit issued in 2010. Villas mushrooming in the ta' Sabbat hamlet south of Buskett thanks to precedent created by 'ghost of permits past' Top: Site of villa approved last week with villa approved in 2021 in the background, and (above) foundations of farmhouse approved in 1979 which unleashed domino effect Site of new villa being proposed 135m from Buskett Timeline 2019: PA approves villa on the basis of a permit issued in 1979 for a farmhouse of which only the foundations had been completed. 2021: PA approves another villa after its previous decision to refuse it was overturned by an appeals tribunal which made reference to the 2019 permit for a villa on the site of the foundations of development approved in 1979. 2024: PA approves new villa on the basis of precedent created by the two previous permits.